nail in the coffin

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Yesterday Nimbus Data Systems announced the release of their S-Class storage array. What’s different about this storage device is that it uses purely NAND memory rather than traditional spinning disk. With it’s arrival, we’re seeing another nail in the coffin of the traditional hard drive. OK, so the S-Class...

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Today, Tapbots released the first public alpha of Tweetbot for Mac. This is not a final review of the app: being in the development stage — albeit ready to be tested by the public — Tweetbot for Mac is still lacking several features that will be available in the...

techcrunch.com

SAP’s Sanjay Poonen said in a meeting of bloggers and analysts today that Windows 8 will rise to the number two spot in the tablet market in part due to Samsung’s patent lawsuit loss to Apple last month. It’s not the sole reason that CIOs cite. But for many, it...

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Excuse the belated chortle here but it bears noting that Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!, seems to have pushed the old maxim of a “new broom sweeps clean” all the way into the darkest recesses of Yahoo. To wit, consider the note the BI found from Mayer to her staff....

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Despite many hits in the genre, social gaming is a relatively risky business. A company can have a hit one day and then the next day it’s suddenly worth nothing as bored users flee en masse. OMGPOP’s Draw Something is a textbook example of how a social game rose to...

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At our IGNITION conference yesterday, I asked Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes what he thought about Netflix, which it seems is following HBO's playbook. Bewkes built HBO into the powerhouse it is today. The service started by licensing movies. Then, later, it moved into original content like The Sopranos,...

nick.typepad.com

This is a hard post for me to write. I've used FeedDemon every day since I created it back in 2003 - it's part of my daily workflow, the first thing I turn to after pouring myself a cup of coffee in the morning. I've thoroughly enjoyed working on it...

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In case you weren't sure yet, ACTA is now pretty officially dead in the EU. While it was mostly dead back in July, when the EU Parliament vociferously rejected ACTA, the EU Commission, who had helped negotiate the treaty, still held out hope that it would be vindicated by the...

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Google Play music is about to reveal its saddest song... for owners of the Nexus Q that is. In fact some might say it's the funeral march. It's been confirmed to Phandroid that the latest update of Google's Play Music service -- that we saw outed yesterday -- doesn't...

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Verizon is trying to put the final nail in the coffin of its DSL service. Of course, that's still a long way off but, for those outside of reach of its FiOS tentacles, Big Red is pushing HomeFusion. The LTE to the home solution, which started rolling out in...

www.theverge.com

Groupon's stock dropped 24 percent today after the company reported disappointing earnings. The company has been on a slide practically since the moment it went public, but this miss was the final nail in the coffin for its young CEO, Andrew Mason. In a press release the company announced that...

www.guardian.co.uk

E-cards are lazy, contemptuous and graceless, their senders morally unsound. And now they've destroyed a high street storeAnother day, another nail in the coffin of all that we hold dear. This time, with the news that Clinton Cards has gone into administration, it is jobs, the high street, the art...

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In a move that struck fear in the hearts of under-educated web editors everywhere, Google announced today that it will remove the old version of Google Analytics tomorrow. After releasing a new version focused on real time analytics in September, Google has kept a link to the old version, which...

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Timbre launched last September as a bootstrapped mobile iOS app to help people discover and share live music recommendations in their vicinity. The simple-but-engaging user interface and service proved to be a hit, and within two months, with no spend on media or marketing, it saw more than 100,000 downloads....

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Adobe is putting the final nail in the coffin for its mobile version of Flash player with the announcement that it won’t be handing out certification for devices running Android 4.1 Jellybean — ever. Adobe first made its intentions about mobile Flash, the version of its popular desktop plugin...

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Google announced this weekend that it’s going to be ending support for Google Gears, its product for allowing offline access to applications like Gmail and Google Docs. Instead of developing Gears, Google said in a blog post it will be focusing on using HTML5 to support offline capabilities from within...

www.extremetech.com

I don’t consider myself that ancient, but I sure felt that way a few days ago. Our on-site networking guru was laughing about an email she’d received from someone who was looking for a router that was MS-DOS compatible. One of our younger analysts (in the interests of protecting her...

pandodaily.com

Nearly 18 months ago, Fred Wilson gave a talk at OMMA. In it, he said, “We believe that each and every Web service we invest in should have a monetization system that is unique and native to the experience.” As prime examples, he cited Google paid search and promoted accounts on Twitter....

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You’ve probably heard that Apple recently released the iPad. The absence of Flash Player on the device seems to have awakened the HTML5 vs. Flash debate. Apparently, it’s the final nail in the coffin for Flash. Either that, or the HTML5 community is overhyping its still nascent markup language update....

thenextweb.com

Just in case you had thought that the newspapers had a chance to recover from their death spiral, think again. We have new data, and it is ugly.Coming from the Newspapers Association of America (via Nieman Labs) about the fourth quarter of 2009 for the US, the data in a...

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Blizzard When Blizzard launches its fourth World of Warcraft expansion, the panda-themed Mists of Pandaria, on September 25, it will also be putting another nail in the coffin of retail-based game distribution. In addition to a standard digital edition, offered at a same-as-retail $39.99 price point, Mists of Pandaria...

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Apple's already lost hope for exclusive rights to the name "iPhone" in Brazil, and now it's been defeated in another battle south of the border. Cupertino and Mexican company iFone S.A. have a long history, stretching back to 2009 when Apple tried to have the firm's "iFone" trademark revoked....

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BetterWorks, the employee perks startup led by Los Angeles entrepreneur and investor Paige Craig, has told its customers that it will be shutting down May 31. The company offered tools to help businesses manage discounts and rewards programs for employees. In the past few months, BetterWorks still seemed to be...